Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

This page lists public posts integrated from @autismcrisis.bsky.social on Bluesky and archived posts from Twitter/X in one chronological feed. It supports reading, filtering and structured review of Michelle Dawson’s public posts used in the autism science watch project.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 May 2025 11:12

On gaze vs attention, autism-relevant, free www.cell.com/trends/cogni... "in live situations, where the eyes signal information, people may naturally avert their gaze while covertly tracking others... with the eyes effectively sending a false signal as to where attention is directed"

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Tom Foulsham, Alan Kingstone (2025). Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(7), 597-599. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 May 2025 12:33

"newly proposed and operationalized subgroups within the autistic adult population based on level of support needs could also potentially allow for more homogeneous outcome sets..."? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... on longitudinal autism research ("pressing challenges" "potential solutions")

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Vanessa Hus Bal, Peter Szatmari, Stelios Georgiades, Stephen J Gentles, Jessica Girault, Patricia Howlin, Meng-Chuan Lai, Virginia Carter Leno, et al. (2025). Methodological challenges and opportunities when studying the course of autism. Autism, 29(10), 2618-2631. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 May 2025 12:39

N=10 neurodivergent researchers sorting out what the neurodiversity movement is & should do? N=3 "strongly agree that neurodiversity is a scientifically meaningless term"? "the scientific status of neurodiversity is a contentious issue..."? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autism-relevant, free

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Paul Stenner, Amy Pearson, Steven Kapp, Catherine Watson, Ronit Pressler, Gemma Williams, Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Lill Hultman, et al. (2025). Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251329625. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 May 2025 11:39

Registered: aiming to "compare mental health treatment outcomes for autistic and non-autistic people of all ages, in diverse settings, and across a range of mental health difficulties, interventions, and outcomes" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review of quantitative studies

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Jessica Griffiths, Freya Elise, Phoebe Barnett, Jordan Thompson, Rachel Rowan Olive, Anam Bhutta, Winnie Liu, Mark Holden, et al. (2025). Comparing mental health treatment outcomes for autistic and non-autistic people: a systematic review. CRD/PROSPERO. NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health (MHPRU), based at University College London and King's College London.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 May 2025 12:35

Behavior analysts want autistic children (N=3, age 4-7) to work for pieces of fruit, instead of junk food reinforcers? ABA in 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... some reported effects on the children: "30 consecutive seconds" of "property destruction... self-injurious behavior... screaming"

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Tanigha McNellis, Jennifer R. Weyman, Olivia Healzer (2025). Some effects of immediacy on healthy food selection. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(3), 642-652. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 May 2025 10:38

Registered: social validity assessments of interventions for autistic children, systematic review of group designs www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... NDBIs "are purported to be seen as more fun and acceptable to families... However, the degree to which this has been assessed empirically is unclear"?

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Rachel Schuck, Lacey Chetcuti, Kaitlynn Baiden, Mirko Uljarevic, Crystal Bahamondes (2025). Social Validity Assessment in Group-Design Intervention Studies for Autistic Children: A Systematic Review. CRD/PROSPERO. Stanford University.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 May 2025 10:58

"self-report autism measures should be tapping into equivalent psychometric constructs across the sexes" but "results suggest that many self-report autism measures may not capture the same constructs in males and females in general population samples"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Lucy H. Waldren, Lucy A. Livingston, Punit Shah (2025). Is there an optimal self-report measure to investigate autism-related sex differences?. Research in Autism, 125, 202617. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 17 May 2025 11:49

Autistic adults talk about disclosure: "assumptions and lack of understanding about autism meant that not only did disclosure not lead to the desired effect of having their needs met, but they were also either dismissed or discriminated against" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

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Sheena K Au-Yeung, Megan Freeth, Andrew R Thompson (2025). ‘Am I gonna regret this?’: The experiences of diagnostic disclosure in autistic adults. Autism, 29(8), 2181-2192. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 May 2025 12:37

In online autism studies, "research teams flagged 87% (Study 1), 71% (Study 2), 82% (Study 3), & 15% (Study 4) of responses collected as possibly fraudulent" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... on fraudulent responses in online autism research, 4 examples & 5 recommendations for autism researchers

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Summer B. Bottini, Patrick Dwyer, Elizabeth A. Kaplan-Kahn, Kaitlin Proctor, Ava Gurba, Hannah E. Morton (2025). Brief report: Fraudulent data responses as a major threat to validity in online autism research – Case studies from four independent research teams. Research in Autism, 125, 202619. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 May 2025 11:33

"while autistic interaction pairs showed equal communicative abilities when compared with non-autistic pairs, we did not find the predicted selective breakdown of communication when autistic and non-autistic people were interacting" www.nature.com/articles/s41... registered report, free

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Catherine J. Crompton, Sarah J. Foster, Charlotte E. H. Wilks, Michelle Dodd, Themis N. Efthimiou, Danielle Ropar, Noah J. Sasson, Martin Lages, et al. (2025). Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(7), 1488-1500. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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